A battered, bruised but (for the moment) unbowed Texas squad carries a 4-7 mark into Saturday's showdown with Baylor. With news coming down yesterday that graduation APR rates will preclude the Longhorns from joining the Feckless Five teams who'll go bowling with 5-7 records this season, Saturday's outcome is in some sense academic. We tend to watch individual college football games for their own sake, though (even when the watching gets tough), so let's spend a moment on the possible outcomes.
Texas could pull a John McClain in McClane Stadium, emerging as a plucky underdog victor if we can keep the broken glass (and our own bullets) out of our feet.